Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 9Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1827 |
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... nature , we at least are amused with the shrewd and animated obser- vations of an entertaining and lively man . Neither , although his fame as a dramatist has much declined since his death , are his merits as a writer so low as not to ...
... nature , we at least are amused with the shrewd and animated obser- vations of an entertaining and lively man . Neither , although his fame as a dramatist has much declined since his death , are his merits as a writer so low as not to ...
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... nature , and interest , ap- proached the original . The island of Felsenburg indeed charmed me in no slight degree ; and the appearance of the spirit , rising out of the water in the form of a cloud , gave me tolerable sensations of ...
... nature , and interest , ap- proached the original . The island of Felsenburg indeed charmed me in no slight degree ; and the appearance of the spirit , rising out of the water in the form of a cloud , gave me tolerable sensations of ...
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... natural enough that such a scene should make an impression upon me , too strong to be effaced by any lapse of time . The night was dark and dismal , the weather stormy . These circumstances , together with the glimmer of the lamp from ...
... natural enough that such a scene should make an impression upon me , too strong to be effaced by any lapse of time . The night was dark and dismal , the weather stormy . These circumstances , together with the glimmer of the lamp from ...
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... natural in my ardour of authorship , that I should be inspired with a secret ambition of rivaling them . I therefore composed a ballad in the very highest flights of the ruling taste , a part of which I have still among my papers . It ...
... natural in my ardour of authorship , that I should be inspired with a secret ambition of rivaling them . I therefore composed a ballad in the very highest flights of the ruling taste , a part of which I have still among my papers . It ...
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... nature presents along the banks of the Rhine , from the place where we entered our yacht , till we arrived at Cologne . Whoever wishes to make an experiment upon himself , whether or not he has any turn for poetry , must take this ...
... nature presents along the banks of the Rhine , from the place where we entered our yacht , till we arrived at Cologne . Whoever wishes to make an experiment upon himself , whether or not he has any turn for poetry , must take this ...
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